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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
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Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#222God it’s so fucking depressing to see all you techies debating whether or not the skill I have dedicated my life to getting good enough at to earn a quiet, modest living with should be automated away or not. And insisting that surely your jobs are too special and complex for this to ever happen to you. At least I can take solace in the fact that for now these things aren’t gonna be taking a bite out of the furry art…
Trust me, we (the techies) are in strong denial about how much time we have left. I've been programming since the late 1980s and have learned everything from VHDL to Clojure and give us till no later than 2040. Realistically, more like 2030, due to the billions of dollars being thrown at AGI for finance and other monetizations. Of course, money won't be worth anything after that, but I doubt that will stop anyone. In…
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
The pictures are certainly deep down in the uncanny valley, but I think they would be great for nightmarish games. In fact, game developers (and especially game artists) might be the next profession on the line, to be automated by AI.
I don't understand your assertion. Neither game developers nor artists are in any danger of being automated by AI. Until Copilot can make the game you want, you cannot replace developers. And until you think AI is ready to replace artists in general, you won't be able to automate game artists. That's not to say a game with assets largely drawn by AI, and heavily assisted by Copilot, wouldn't be a cool artistic experi…
assets seem quite possibly ai generatable in the near future. you won't be using AI for the important things yet, but a AA or AAA game has a ton of random assets where for random crap that doesn't matter, but that you need to make the world feel full. that seems like a perfect use of AI assets.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#224Honestly, this is an awesome use of DALL-E and I'll probably start doing the same for my blog It's perfect because: - The images just need to get across a vibe, they don't need to be perfect - It's a low-value enough use of images that you'd probably never commission a human artist to do them; instead you'd either use stock photos, or skip having images completely - The nature of header images for a tech blog tends t…
>The images just need to get across a vibe I can't speak for everyone, but with my own experience of reading (at least partially) a dozen or two technical articles almost every day for many years, pointless media is a hallmark of low quality. these days, I just immediately bail with Ctrl+W as soon as I encounter a twitter-pop-culture meme/gif in the header or anywhere near the top. sure, it does mean I skip the 5 out…
Don't want them either, but, please blame the specs? not needfully the writers?
https://ogp.me/#metadata opengraph requires an image, for example
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering how DALL-E is fed with so many stock images that it sometimes spontaneously generates specific stock image websites' watermarks on output,[1] this is the stupidest, blandest possible ouroboros. [1] https://twitter.com/kevin2kelly/status/1551964984325812224
Is this DALL-E? There’s no DALL-E signature on the image. The same prompt with DALL-E gives me proper silhouettes with no watermark.
This is such a clever hack: “here, take this answer; it’s good the ‘AI’ generated it”, and if you can’t check like you did you might be able to spoof a self serving recommendation through simply because interprability of the inference is so difficult and reproducing might be costly.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
open source isn't the same as public domain. the code is still copyrighted and has a specific license that has to be adhered to in order to be allowed to use it
Nobody knows whether or not training a NN is fair use. If it were ruled to be not fair use then it would basically shut down a large chunk of ML research in the US, as it's not just Copilot that is training on copyrighted data. All the large language models require copyrighted data such as web crawls as there is just not enough public domain material around. So even if you are right, and courts rule that training is…
„Dad, Dad! Can you give me your gun? I want to shoot myself in my foot!“ - „Oh no, why would you ever want to do this?!“ - „the neighbours are doing it too!“ - „oh, alrighty then!“
I swear, world politics and economics isn’t much different from that, intellectually….
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
>The images just need to get across a vibe I can't speak for everyone, but with my own experience of reading (at least partially) a dozen or two technical articles almost every day for many years, pointless media is a hallmark of low quality. these days, I just immediately bail with Ctrl+W as soon as I encounter a twitter-pop-culture meme/gif in the header or anywhere near the top. sure, it does mean I skip the 5 out…
Don't want them either, but, please blame the specs? not needfully the writers? https://ogp.me/#metadata opengraph requires an image, for example
You can use the same image for every page on the website if you want.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#228God it’s so fucking depressing to see all you techies debating whether or not the skill I have dedicated my life to getting good enough at to earn a quiet, modest living with should be automated away or not. And insisting that surely your jobs are too special and complex for this to ever happen to you. At least I can take solace in the fact that for now these things aren’t gonna be taking a bite out of the furry art…
News at 11: jobs are taken away and replaced by advances in technology.
You are not special. I am not special.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering how DALL-E is fed with so many stock images that it sometimes spontaneously generates specific stock image websites' watermarks on output,[1] this is the stupidest, blandest possible ouroboros. [1] https://twitter.com/kevin2kelly/status/1551964984325812224
Is this DALL-E? There’s no DALL-E signature on the image. The same prompt with DALL-E gives me proper silhouettes with no watermark.
Probably Midjourney which doesn't add the signature and outputs 4 images likes this.
Re: I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
#230God it’s so fucking depressing to see all you techies debating whether or not the skill I have dedicated my life to getting good enough at to earn a quiet, modest living with should be automated away or not. And insisting that surely your jobs are too special and complex for this to ever happen to you. At least I can take solace in the fact that for now these things aren’t gonna be taking a bite out of the furry art…
Thats a bit unfair. The discussion is not about what should happen. But a prediction of what will happen, given these technologies exist. This is a tech forum after all, and speculation about tech and society is a big part of that.
Personally my societal concern is yet another industry where we had multiple small jobs will be ruled by a few conglomerates.
Small business are like democracy in a free market. And we keep evolving to it all ending in the hands of a few.